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Snow falls on a নৌকা that was beached দ্বারা the সাম্প্রতিক tsunami, in Miyako, Iwate prefecture. A shallow 6.5-magnitude earthquake hit off the northeast coast of জাপান on Monday, the US Geological Survey said.

OSAKA, জাপান (AFP) - A shallow 6.5-magnitude earthquake hit off the northeast coast of জাপান on Monday, the US Geological Survey said.
The জাপান Meteorological Agency issued a 50-centimetre (18 inch) tsunami warning for the Pacific coast of Miyagi prefecture, which was devastated দ্বারা the huge earthquake and tsunami that hit on March 11.
OFUNATO, জাপান (AFP) - জাপান ব্যক্ত Monday it will dump over 10,000 tons of low-level radioactive water into the Pacific as part of emergency operations to stabilise its crippled Fukushima nuclear plant.

The announcement of the last resort measure came as the Bank of জাপান ব্যক্ত business confidence had plummeted since the earthquake and tsunami hit on March 11, plunging the country into its worst crisis since World War II.

The UN atomic watchdog chief Yukiya Amano, ব্যক্ত that the three-week-old emergency, which জাপান has predicted will last for months, meant an end to a "business as usual" approach...
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7 injured as M6.4 Earthquake shakes Fukushima

National Jul. 31, 2011 - 05:30PM JST ( 35 )

TOKYO —

A strong 6.4-magnitude earthquake struck off northeast Japan’s Fukushima region, প্রথমপাতা to a crippled nuclear power plant, early Sunday, but there was no risk of a tsunami, seismologists said.

The tremor at 3:54 a.m. injured seven people but caused no damage to the Fukushima Daiichi plant, which was ravaged দ্বারা a 9.0 quake and ensuing tsunami in March, the আগুন and Disaster Management Agency said.

In the city of Hitachinaka, a 60-year-old man broke his wrist when he was jolted off his বিছানা দ্বারা the tremor,...
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Major disasters like the Japanese earthquake and tsunami অথবা Pakistan's floods are likely to become আরো frequent, and global governments must prepare for an uncertain future, according to a British report.

Paddy Ashdown, a member of the British House of Lords and ex-United Nations high representative to Bosnia and Herzegovina, ব্যক্ত rich nations must help poorer countries to build up their defences against disasters.

In a government প্রতিবেদন published Monday, he ব্যক্ত scientists believe সাম্প্রতিক natural disasters were not an aberration, but "the beginnings of a new kind of future in which mega-disasters...
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